> It doesn't stop with PhD. You need multiple postdocs to get an academic job by when you are well into the thirties Not true in many fields, and by the time m

> It doesn't stop with PhD. You need multiple postdocs to get an academic job by when you are well into the thirties Not true in many fields, and by the time most people have postdocs, they're makibg decent enough money that they don't need to keep their lives on hold. > If they are leaving for industry after PhD, why do a PhD in first place. I don't know what to say to this, other than that you have very strong opinions and I can't tell what you're basing them on -- or whether you're basing them on anything more than the strange belief that study is useless and school makes people poor.